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Washington Heart and Vascular Services
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Our Services
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Valvular Heart Disease
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- Heart Failure: Advanced Cardiac Support and Transplantation Center
- Cardiac Catheterization Lab
- Cardiac Arrhythmia Center
- Cardiovascular Imaging Center
- Center for Aortic Disease
- Cardiac Surgery
- Pulmonary Hypertension Center
- Heart Disease Prevention
- Listen to Your Heart: Women at Risk
- Women's Heart Disease Prevention
- Research Center
- Innovations in Cardiac Care
- Center for Vascular Care
- Our Physicians
- Cardiovascular Conditions & Treatments
- Research
- For Referring Physicians
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Our Technology & Facilities
At Washington Heart and Vascular Institute at Washington Hospital Center, our electrophysiologists manage one of the largest and busiest electrophysiology (EP) labs in the country. As a major referral center for the mid-Atlantic region, our physicians perform more than 5,000 procedures a year.
About the Electrophysiology Lab
Washington Hospital Center opened the area's first Arrhythmia Center in 1985, and since then has remained in the forefront of new techniques to evaluate and manage patients with a wide variety of arrhythmias. Our facilities are equipped with four new electrophysiology laboratories with in the most advanced equipment and technology. Together with the outpatient Arrhythmia Center, they form a fully integrated arrhythmia care center for patients.
Their clinical scope of work encompasses all areas of arrhythmia management, including:
- Pacemakers
- Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs)
- Biventricular pacing
- All types of ablation, including ablation for:
- Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Atrial fibrillation